mcovet wrote:Can 86ti post link to the post where someone got PR having been married for 3 years?

See my post above.

Finally, this is what worries me most: my wife spent a month and a half in the UK, she had to leave because after visiting my family in Spain, on our return to the UK an Immigration Officer wasn't convinced of what she told him, almost refused her to enter the UK. He finally let her in but shortene...

You are obviously not applying for a "Spouse Visa" but rather for an EEA family permit (that distinction is very important). As you are in the UK already, presumably longer than three months, you will have to show that you are exercising your treaty rights. Self-employment is just as fine as being a...

But also look into what this poster claims. (Original thread and the response to mcovet).

mrsjenhesse wrote:FP approved! I guess supporting documents speed up the process, 5 working days in total.

Congratulations! But you have no prove for the latter statement. It's really just a wild guess.

Also look here . The very idea of free movement is that you can move to another member state to look for work with little bureaucratic hurdles. Only after three months are you required to 'exercise treaty rights', i.e. to be able to support yourself without becoming an 'unreasonable' burden to the h...

i have just gone with direct travel insurance http://www.direct-travel.co.uk/faq/how-do-you-define-uk-resident.aspx . all others i came across specified you have to have been living in the uk for 6 months No need for travel insurance if you are the spouse of an EU citizen. You should get EHIC cards...

What are you applying for and why would you need bank statements?

You will have to make a new application, see http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucit ... ts-family/ . It is free of cost. For current timelines see the tail of this thread.

For a successful application you will need to be a qualified person. A job seeker is a qualified person provided he/she is actively looking for work and can also show that. This status can be kept for six months and only longer if the applicant can show that he/she has a genuine chance of being empl...

If the passport is not available the RC will be issued on a separate A4 paper but the UKBA may ask to have the passport send back to them.

There is no transfer as such. You would have to make a fresh application.

Your wife's son is a direct family member. Your niece could qualify as an extended family member if she dependant on you or was a family member of the EEA national in the country you lived before.

Chapter 12 of the ECIs provides some guidelines to what benefits are available in particular circumstances. This is official documentation that can be relied on.

Evidence of financial means to support an EEA FP application is only needed if the EEA national is already in the UK for more than three months and thus required to exercise treaty rights. In 2006 EEA FP applications were handled differently if the application was submitted outside the EEA or maybe ...

Unreasonable burden to the state. As with so many things in the EEA regulations there are no fixed ruled what that means but would have to be assessed on an individual basis. Eventually, it is probably for the courts to decide.

Can the GDC change Directive 2004/38/EC and Directive 2005/36/EC? Why do you still believe they have any relevance to your current circumstances? As explained above you have to deal solely with national legislation. And obviously the GDC, and also the GMC, have the authority to decide who can pract...

However, my interpretation of the second point is that they can't request evidence of historic financial transactions and we need only prove that the parents are dependent on us by virtue of them having no money/income/assets and no other relatives who are willing/able to support them. My understan...

Your child can stay with you, of course. As it is an Italian citizen there are no further formalities required. You can apply for registration certificates for both of you but that's optional and, frankly, pretty useless in your situation IMHO.

Thanks a lot for your feedback. I'm just not sure if it's right to have those involved called out by name.

My understanding is that this residence permit allows you travel visa-free within the Schengen zone just as the residence card (in another thread you said you have one) but with the general caveat that with the latter you would need the company of your wife (or follow her at a later date). On the up...

If it is on the list of Schengen effective permits, then yes. Norway is mentioned in this document. But is this document still valid if you live now in the UK? You will not need a visa if you hold a residence card (there are no EEA family visas).

The only question is whether the visa issuing post can require a history of dependence.

The calendar year approach cannot work and there is nothing in the ECIs suggesting that it would be used. I am not sure what you mean by "cannot work". Please go through the calculation examples above. The effective residence needed for PR there ranged from just a little above 2 years (fysicus' exa...

mcovet wrote:HMRC are right to regard her as not legally working until she proves it by registering with UKBA (now obsolete)

An A8 national worker would have had to register with the WRS for the first year. Was she?